Lose and become Iran.
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"I am amazed the "civil liberatarians" have no care whatsoever for how their efforts will hurt the American people as a whole."
Don't be. The ACLU crowd are a classic example of "the man that cut off his nose to spite his face."
You bet he nails it. There's not a supposition in this piece that I would disagree with it.
Against whom?
Those on the “progressive” left have just begun mentally chewing on what for them is a gargantuan idea, that the military conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq are but battles in a much more monumental war. Those who understand the danger facing our country have come to the realization that there are two major fronts in our struggle for survival; the physical front (locations of armed conflict) and the ideological front (where the battles for the mind of a society take place).
These are major battles in a larger war. Every time a terrorist is killed or a terrorist cell ripped apart, a minor skirmish is won. Yet the minor skirmish is a major battle to those specific combatants.
The writer nails this one. I am amazed the "civil liberatarians" have no care whatsoever for how their efforts will hurt the American people as a whole.
What makes you think they don't want the Islamists to win. What has the ACLU done in my lifetime (55 years) to suggest that they want the United States to exist as a going concern or exist at all, for that matter?
Sure there will, as long as you convert to worshipping the moon god at a fever pitch, and you're not a woman or a small farm animal with your rear end exposed.
Apparently, they are winning in the sense that "our way of life" is that of an open and free society which is being slowly circumscribed. Or I guess we have to destroy liberal democracy in order to save it.
I reject the notion we must trade freedom for security. The 9/11 attack happened because our 2nd amendment rights were taken away. If the passengers on those planes had had the right to carry firearms, the terrorists would never have attempted to hijack them.
And apparently, there will be a lot fewer civil liberties if we win this war.
It is rare that "temporary measures" by governments ever get rolled back.
Lot of you people that work in the White House showing up here lately.
No surprises here. The Left actively supported Communism, which would have wiped out individual rights upon gaining power. That's because, in my opinion, the Left simply doesn't believe in individual rights at all. Group interests, certainly, starting with the "workers" and continuing through "minorities" and "women." The inevitable flow of history, yes. Their own destiny as the elites who will determine equality in society and establish a better world for "children and other living things." But individual rights? Not in their playbook. Now the Left tacitly supports terrorists because their interests are the same - the destruction of the "bourgeouis state" as exemplified by the United States. Once the destruction of the United States takes place, then the elites can take control here and deal with the disorganized and undergunned Islamists whose minds are clouded by the "opiate" of religion. Think of Lenin and his phrase "useful idiots." The great Leftist revolutions have one common thread - social and political chaos first, then a grab for control. Osama is their ally, so to speak. Not that they would admit it. Anything that leads to social decay will do - which is why so many Leftists pine away for a world ruined by global warming or environmental disaster. Like I said, no surprises here.
In my lifetime my generation faced down a nuclear threat from a major world power without flinching or even surrendering as many civil liberties as we seem to want to against this non nation conglomeration of religious fanatics. This is a war without end...Big Brothers "Goldstein".
PT Barnum was right. We are a nation of suckers.
All members of the Court joined in rejecting the government's argument that the Bill of Rights simply did not apply in wartime. The majority opinion contains a somewhat rhetorical passage for which it is justly famous:
The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances. No doctrine, involving more pernicious consequences, was ever invented by the wit of man than that any of its provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government. Such a doctrine leads directly to anarchy or despotism, but the theory of necessity on which it is based is false; for the government, within the Constitution, has all the powers granted to it, which are necessary to preserve its existence; as has been happily proved by the result of the great effort to throw off its just authority.
Supreme Court 1866
The left in the country would be satisfied with the sloppy seconds the Islamists leave if they are allowed the facade of power.
Do you honestly believe that the Islamo-fascists are capable of conquering the U.S.?
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After the Fall of Freedom in Vietnam 30 years ago, exactly, came...
Pictures of a vietnamese Re-Education Camp
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308949/posts
Having to flee Saigon, Vietnam in a hurry, as Freedom was falling there, a 10 year old little boy named VAN TRAN came to America with his family with just the shirts on their backs...
...speaking only 2 words of English.
VAN TRAN is now the 1st Vietnamese=American to become a State Legislator in United States History. He has learned much in the decades long process of getting there. And has much to share in this new time of war with our own Freedom directly at stake here at home...
Tran Blast Dean: Calls for Solidarity in Iraq
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1536289/posts
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